On Friday, though, the legacy of a woman of courage and spirit - a patriot and a spy - was celebrated.
Mr Allex - a French spy - was kidnapped in Somalia in July 2009.
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Mikhail Trepashkin, a former counterintelligence colleague of Litvinenko who once warned the ex-spy of a plot to kill him.
Bond's producers unsuccessfully contested the title of Myers's last movie, The Spy Who Shagged Me - a spoof on 007 movie The Spy Who Loved Me.
London (CNN) -- A British spy found dead at his home in 2010 -- his naked body padlocked inside a large red carrying bag stowed in the bathtub -- was either suffocated or poisoned, but it is unlikely his death will ever be satisfactorily explained, coroner Fiona Wilcox said Wednesday.
That quarrel had just about been patched up by May, when American special forces discovered and killed Osama bin Laden nesting in what was probably a Pakistani army-spy safe house in a military town, Abbottabad.
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Reports about the "body-in-a-bag spy" describe how two experts spent days trying to figure out whether Williams, who was athletic and of medium height, could have contorted himself in such as way as to lock himself into the North Face holdall bag, with a key to the padlock inside.
Do her many international moves and spotty employment details read like the perfect cover-up for a deep-cover spy?
The 127.2% target was exceeded on July 14, and then SPY began a six-week rebound.
Rather, they combine them with bond indexes or funds, or peel back on the large-caps inherent in SPY, and add a concentration of small- or mid-cap focused investments.
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America operates a spy network there and recently launched a special-forces commando raid from its base in nearby Djibouti to free an American citizen from Somali brigands.
On the other hand, humour, gadgets, exotic locations - such as a submarine in The Spy Who Love Me - sex, stunts and laughable villains were played up.
Now a spy, traitor or whistle-blower can put gigabytes of data on a fingernail-sized card and pass them on anonymously, irretrievably and all but instantly.
The original film version of "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" is a seven-hour 1979 BBC series that starred Alec Guinness.
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It will be a final tribute for a warrior spy-turned-surgeon who spent his post-war years pioneering heart research and emergency trauma care from New York to Hawaii.
Despite a tendency for commentators on both sides of the Atlantic to spy a damaging Europe-America split over Iraq, in fact it is Europe that is most deeply divided.
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He was the driving force behind the rebuild of the famous Colossus computer and one of the founders of The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park, as well as being a British spy-catcher.
The Cars sequel takes the action out of tiny Radiator Springs as McQueen goes on a kind of James Bond-style spy adventure around the world, which should help attract a bigger international audience.
The story is simple and fun: a 15-year-old American boy is a super spy in London.
In "Breach, " with officials suspecting something wrong with Hanssen (Chris Cooper), Eric O'Neill (Ryan Phillippe) -- a young agent -- is assigned to spy on the older man.
The new movie is the third to feature Mike Myers's comic creation - a spoof British spy from the 1960s.
As part of his mission, Quest travels to Israel to meet a former spy master -- Efraim Halvey, formerly the top man at Mossad.
After the fall of France in 1940, Mrs Wake became a French Resistance courier and later a saboteur and spy - setting up escape routes and sabotaging German installations, saving hundreds of Allied lives.
After too many strange looks, the pair retire to the library to debate the intricacies of espionage, world domination, what happens when a spy gets caught -- and what makes the best cover for an agent.
If they can, the overall intelligence effort should benefit immeasurably, especially in the area of counterintelligence where -- as spy scandals in recent years have demonstrated -- there has been a crying need for better analysis.
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It also uses a tether and can stay aloft for 12-hours on a single ground-station battery, letting it spy from afar with on-board HD, night-vision and thermal cameras.
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His protagonist, Stephen Coleman, is a middle-level Australian diplomat who also happens to be a spy.
The lawyers behind a class-action lawsuit against the company over Wi-Spy will certainly be happy to hear that Google has admitted to a privacy violation.
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That means the far-out tools seen in 20-year-old spy movies are filled with a wealth of ideas for putting once exotic technology to use.
The black and white aerial footage, Iran claims was from a RQ-170 spy plane, was aired by Iranian news agencies and placed on YouTube.
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